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Our Android smartphones have become our
closest companion and confidant as they carry
lots of personal data and even sensitive
documents relating to work and business. Some of
these include e-mails, passwords, messages,
contacts, photos and videos. Therefore it is of
paramount importance to secure your handset to
prevent fraudsters from gaining access to it. It is
also important to ensure that in case it falls into the
wrong hands, your data and information stay safe.
Some of the ways to do this are outlined below.
Password Your Device
All Android phones have the options of using either
a pattern lock or an alphanumeric password
(numbers and letters). When using the pattern
lock, ensure that it is not an easy to guess pattern
but one that you can remember and make sure no
other person knows the password for the Gmail
account associated with your device. For the
alphanumeric password, it is best to use numbers,
letters and symbols together but it should be
something you can remember, don’t use
passwords like 12345, your name, birthday or
other things that someone can look up. In both
cases, do not tell anyone your password and
ensure no one sees you when drawing your
pattern.
Use Google
All Android devices from Android version 2.2 and
above come with a special feature you can use to
track and manage your device. Check for Google
Settings on your device denoted by a grey icon
with small letter ‘g’ and a gear symbol. Open the
app and choose the ‘Android Device Manager’
option, you will then see various options for
locating, remote locking and factory resetting of
your device in case it gets lost or is stolen.
Then you can log on to the Android
Device Manager website http://www.google.com/
android/ devicemanager using your Gmail account
to control your phone from any location.
Use an antivirus
Hackers, spyware and other bad stuff can get
access to your phone through surfing the net,
downloading files, running apps amongst other
things. To guard against these threats, it is best to
uses an AntiVirus app. There are several free and
paid antivirus apps such as AVG AntiVirus Security
Free, Avast Mobile Security, Norton Security
antivirus, etc. Free antivirus apps are good enough
but if you want better protection, go for the paid
options.
Some of the antivirus apps can help track your
phone if stolen or misplaced, remotely wipe your
data to prevent intrusion and even make a loud
sound to help you locate it. It is best to have only
one antivirus software on your device as having
more than one can cause your device to run
slowly.
Install an Anti-Theft App to Snap the Thief
You might have heard of some thieves who were
caught after the phones the stole took their photos
and sent them to the real owners of the phones.
You can do it too however only if your device has a
front camera, there are many apps in the Google
PlayStore which have that capability most of which
are paid.
Some are Cerberus Anti-Theft and Lockwatch
Anti-Theft by Bloketech. These apps use the
device’s front camera to take a photo of the thief
when he/she attempts to unlock the device with a
wrong password. It will then send the photo and
phone location to you via email which makes it
easy for you to catch the thief, its better you go
with law enforcement officers and not alone. The
apps work silently so the thief won’t know he/she
is been photographed.
Track Your Device
As earlier said, there are a lot of apps in the
PlayStore which can help you secure your phone.
When you install the app, make sure you do all it
asks you to do so that you can track your phone,
you might need to open an account online on the
app vendor’s website to help you track and
remotely control the device, make sure you do
that. Once it goes missing, use the app to track its
location using the instructions in the app and do
any of the following lock it, unlock it, send a
message to the thief, take his/her photo or wipe
the data on the phone depending on the app. If the
phone doesn’t have an internet connection, you
can send an SMS command to it and its location
will be sent back to you.
Pay attention to app permissions
App permissions are your first line of defense
against malicious software. Every time you install
an app, you see a pop-up that lists all of the
aspects of your phone that the app is designed to
access. While most people mindlessly dismiss the
pop-up and continue the installation, it sometimes
pays off to discover whether the flashlight app you
downloaded uses services that could cost you
money, for example, or to learn that Facebook’s
app essentially asks to use your entire phone.
Best Practices for Securing Your Phone
Don’t download attachments from e-mails sent by
unknown contacts.
Before you install an app, look at the permissions
it asks for and allow or deny as you want.
Install only well rated apps e.g. those with at least
1000 downloads except it’s by someone you know
well.
Don't give an app access to your social media
accounts e.g. Google, Facebook and Twitter
except for a very good reason; it’s not compulsory
that if an app requests access to your accounts
that it be allowed.
In here am not posting any tweak, i just want to teach android users how to increase their ram with a simple app called SIMPLE ROOT SWAP. search on google play and download... if you have any question just ask. thanks
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR TECNO ANDROID AND OTHER MTK PHONE IMEI NUMBER TO BLACKBERRY
Why would you want to change you imei to blackberry? Because you want to deceive glo that you are using a blackberry, so that glob is subscription will work on it. FINISH!!!!
First Bullet: I won’t be responsible for any damage this tutorial causes on your sweet little chinko android phone. Also, changing of IMEI is illegal in some countries, and I will not be held responsible if you go to jail.
First and foremost, write down your original imei number and keep it safe, remember I won’t be responsible for nada.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to:
1.Generate your own blackberry imei number and a pin
2.Change your Tecno imei number with the blackberry imei you generated using a PC
3.Change your Tecno imei number with the blackberry imei you generated directly on your phone without pc
4.Send me small token of MTN recharge card if you find this tutorial useful
That being said, lets proceed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
HOW TO GENERATE A BLACKBERRY IMEI NUMBER
Download this software GIP v4.1 here >>> http://downloads.ziddu.com/download/12918986/gpibb.rar.html
Unrar the file and copy and paste the three .sys files inside the folder to your C:\Windows folder
Then double click on GIPv4.1 to open
Click on Generate **** imei, don’t mind the complaint, Click on Continue
Write down the Blackberry imei number generated and maybe the pin too (if you feel like eating it…lol).
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR BLACKBERRY IMEI NUMBER USING PC
Requirements
•Root Access on your Phone
•MTK Droid Tools v2.4.8 [http://www.mediafire.com/download/n3pv6519ya4ovor/MtkDroidTools_v248.exe]
•Your IMEI [you can get this at the back of your phone it is a 15 Digits Number]
•Android ADB Driver – Depends on what phone you are using , but for most cases this Universal Driver Works fine [http://www.mediafire.com/download/ryyk4tqlrujwd49/Driver_Auto_Installer_v1.1236.00.rar]
STEP 1
Open the self-extracting archive of the MTK Droid ROOT and Tools and open the MTKdroidTools.exe be sure to run it as an Administrator, plug in your phone and be sure you have already root your phone and have installed the Driver for your phone. Once you have open the MTK Droid Tools it must detect the information of your Device.
STEP 2
Once it has detected your phone information you will notice your IMEI will show there but if you have error it will not show there and we will use this tool to restore it. Next you need to click the ROOT button so that it will temporary have Root shell access on your phone in order for it to make the script work on the background. The colour will change from yellow to green. It will prompt this window to gain root shell access
STEP 3
Once you have the root shell access click the IMEI/NVRAM button and a new window will show
Now all you need to do is put your 15 Digits Blackberry IMEI Number you generated earlier
NOTE: IMEI 1 DENOTES SIM 1 AND IMEI 2 DENOTES SIM 2. So change accordingly
Then Press the REPLACE IMEI button and it will prompt you this window that it will replace your existing one
After that just reboot your phone and your chinko will turn into a blackberry.
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR BLACKBERRY IMEI NUMBER WITHOUT PC
1.Go to play store and install Mobileuncle MTK tool if you don’t have it
2.Open the mobile uncle tool and scroll to Engineering mode (MTK) and click it.
3.Click on CDS information
4.Click the Radio information and you will get phone 1 and phone 2. Depending on the sim imei you wish to change, phone 1 is sim 1 and phone 2 is sim 2
5.To change sim 1 imei number to blackberry, touch phone 1 and in the popup, touch the AT+
6.Once you touch the Key board will pop up. In the key board you type any single letter and cancel only the letter you have type. Immediately you can notice the scribes that is required for you It looks like AT+EGMR=1,7""
7.Click the first row and after 7 you can notice the simple "" delete the last inverted comma and type the Blackberry imei number you generated
8.Verify the typed blackberry imei numbers, then close the inverted commas "
9.Click the SEND AT COMMAND
10.Once the pop up display indicates AT command successfully send.
11.Reboot your phone and enjoy.
12.IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE BACK YOUR IMEI TO THE ORIGINAL ONE, JUST REPEAT THE PROCEDURE USING YOUR REAL IMEI
HOW TO SEND ME SMALL TOKEN (MTN RECHARGE CARD even if na transfer) IF YOU FIND THIS TUTORIAL USEFUL
If you find this tutorial useful and want to say thanks, send recharge card to my number below, even if na me2u I go appreciate.
My is Frank and this is my MTN number is 0810 716 2532
PLEASE DO NOT COPY THIS TUTORIAL TO ANY OTHER SITE.
Thanks and happy surfing!
Acknowledgement:
1.My brain
2.w w w . p i n o y s c r e e n c a s t . n e t
Last Bullet: I have really simplified this tutorial and I really don’t expect people to ask questions, but of peradventure you have one or two questions, post it here.
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in this tutorial I will tell you how to get a thousand imei number from google
the imei is valid and functional
and u have to ensure the imei is for a blackberry device
how to be sure is to visit this site: http://www.imei.info.info
then place the copied imei into the provided box on the site .
click and the site will give you info of the device that owns the imei
so lets start on how to get thousands valid bb imei from google
1. go to google.com
on the search box search this words without bracket (blackberry mep unlock via imei forum)
2.google will bring sites where you will see a lot of foreign forum sites where people are pasting their imei for free.
3. copy as many as imei you like .
4. you may want to validate if the imei truly belongs to a blackberry fone.
to do that just copy the imei and past it in the box found in the site www.imei.info
the click and it will tell you the device name and all ifo about that device
then you are good to go
u can find tones of valid blackberry imei on these sites
5... one of the site google.com will give u is
http://www.bbmanila.com/blackberrys...philippines/provide-your-imei-and-mep-id-here
6... http://www.nairaland.com/987500/free-blackberry-unlocking-codes
7... http://wasconet.com/unlock-your-blackberry-free/comment-page-1/#comments
ensure to chk the imei truly belongs to a blackberry by cross checking the imei at http://www.imei.info
if the imei doesnt belong to a blackberry device. it wont work
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This is a tutorial on how to change imei on a rooted htc phone. Use google to search on how to root your phone. If your phone is already rooted then you can continue with this steps. Google search for android sdk tools and download it. Now most htc phone can go to the bootloader by putting of your htc phone then power it on while holding the volume down button and it will boot to the bootloader, connect ur phone to your pc with your cable and click on fastboot- The volume is used to navigate and the power button is used to select your option. When on your fastboot, click on computer and search "cmd" which means command prompt. It will open the command prompt window. Then type "fastboot getvar imei" it will display your current imei. Type "fastboot oem writeimei 35xxxx" the 35xxx stands for the blackberry imei u want to use. U will get a success report. Now you can reboot your phone and enjoy your new imei. Feel free to ask questions and i will assist in anyway i can
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SUSPECTED members of the violent Islamic sect,
Boko Haram, have again bombed a market in
Nguro-Soye, near Bama, Borno State, killing no
fewer than 29 persons.
Reuters reported on Sunday that the attack on the
market was said to have been carried out on
Saturday night.
“I travelled to Bama to buy bags of beans.
Suddenly, there was a deafening bang at the
middle of the market. It was in the late afternoon
and commercial activities were at their peak,” said
Shuaibu Abdulahi, a trader at the market. He
estimated the death toll to be as high as 29.
Abba Tahir, a bus driver who was said to be
offloading passengers at the market during the
incident, said he counted 20 bodies.
“People were helping in evacuating the corpses
after the confusion had died down. Some people
who were injured were taken to the general
hospital,” Tahir added.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack
yet as of the time of this report.
Borno State Police Commissioner,, Mr. Lawal
Tanko, who confirmed the incident, was quoted as
saying, “An explosion in the market in Nguro-Soye
killed 17 people.”
Bama is a border town and the headquarter of the
Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. It is
about 135 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state
capital.
The town is not new to attacks by the Boko Haram
insurgents. The 202 Army Battalion Barracks
located in the town was hit by Boko Haram in
December 2013.
Several women and children, mostly wives and
wards of soldiers, who battled the insurgents for
over seven hours, were killed in the attack
launched at about 3 am.
On February 19 this year, the insurgents also
attacked Bama.Confirming the February attack,
Governor Kashim Shettima had said the attackers
“inflicted a lot of damage on the town.” A Borno
State senator, Ahmed Zanna, had then told the BBC
that the attack on Bama lasted for five hours.
Boko Haram has killed well over 1,500 people in
the North-East zone since the sect launched its
war against the Federal Government.
In the course of their bombing campaign, the
insurgents have attacked military and police
facilities, worship houses, markets and drinking
joints.
At the height of the Boko Haram notoriety in May
last year, the Federal Government slammed a six-
month state of emergency on three north-eastern
states of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno.
The emergency measure was renewed for another
six months in November but while the military
claimed to be having the upper hand in the battle
against the insurgents, the sect members
continued to launch attacks with devastating
consequences on the civilian population.
On February 24, the insurgents attacked the
Federal Government College, Buni Yadi,in the Gujba
Local Government Area of Yobe State.
Yobe State Police Commissioner, Sanusi Rufai, had
then said that 29 male students were killed during
the attack but at least 40 students were believed to
have been murdered.
The insurgents, who reportedly severed the heads
of many of the victims, also burnt down buildings
in the school.
The development forced the Federal Government
to announce early in March the closure of its five
unity schools in the North-East.
Meanwhile, security agents in a church in Jos,
Plateau State, on Sunday prevented an attack on
worshippers by gunmen suspected to be Fulani
herdsmen.
The gunmen were said to have targeted the church
located at the Rantya low cost area of Nyago Gyel
district in the Jos South Local Government Area.
They had descended from the hills and were about
to launch the attack when a member of the
church’s security team spotted them.
Though the gunmen, in their hundreds, immediately
started shooting sporadically in the direction of the
church, they were repelled by men of the Special
Task Force.
An eyewitness, Mr. Godwin Okoko, told one of our
correspondents that but for the vigilance of the
police and soldiers attached to the STF, who
responded to distress calls by the worshippers, the
gunmen would have succeeded.
Okoko said about 1,000 people were in the church
at about 10am preparing to commence Sunday
worship “when the gunmen started descending
from the hills and started shooting but were
swiftly repelled by men of the STF.”
Okoko is the country coordinator of a non-
governmental organisation, Apurimac Onlus.
Plateau State Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris
Olakpe, confirmed the incident to our
correspondent on Sunday.
He said that no life was lost and nobody was
arrested.
“My men got a distress call that some gunmen
were planning to attack a church as the
worshippers were about to commence service. We
stormed the area and there was a heavy exchange
of gunfire between the gunmen and a combined
force of policemen and STF.”
Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, is among top
dignitaries that will grace the TomTom Go-To-
Brazil media launch scheduled to hold on Tuesday
in Lagos.
The African Coach of the Year, confirmed to the
organisers, HotSports that he would be at the
event.
He said, “I will be in Lagos for the TomTom Go-
To-Brazil media launch God willing.”
He commended TomTom for its support for
Nigerian football through different initiatives. He
maintained that the brand’s support to the
country’s national teams, particularly the Super
Eagles, has been a source of encouragement for
them.
“I commend TomTom for its enormous support for
the country’s national teams, particularly my team,
the Super Eagles. It is an encouragement to us. I
urge the brand to keep this up and I hope other
companies would emulate this,” Keshi said.
He added that he and his team would do their
utmost best to perform well and make Nigerians
happy at all times with Brazil 2014 in sight.
The TomTom Go-To-Brazil project is a consumer
reward initiative where some lucky Nigerians will
win all-expense paid round trip to Brazil.
THERE were indications on Sunday that the Senate
Committee on Interior had invited the Minister of
Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, and the Comptroller
General of the Nigeria Immigration Service’s, Mr.
David Parradang, to appear before it on Tuesday
(tomorrow) over the NIS tragic recruitment two
Saturdays ago.
An aide to the Senate President, who spoke with
our correspondent on the condition of anonymity,
said that though there were pressures on his
principal from some elders in his state to save
Moro, he maintained that Mark would not interfere
in the probe process.
He said Mark would subject the report of the
committee to an extensive debate by the senators
before demanding for votes from members to
show his neutrality in the entire process.
“It is a known fact that the Interior Minister is from
the same state with the Senate President but that
does not mean he would not perform his legislative
duties to Nigerians,” the source said.
No fewer than 19 job seekers lost their lives during
stampedes that occurred in the various centres for
the NIS recruitment across the country.
The Senate had directed its Committee on Interior
to carry out a public investigative hearing on the
tragedy.
The Senate, presided over by the Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu, had equally asked the
committee to submit report of its investigation
within one week with a view to unveiling and
recommending for prosecution those responsible
for the tragedy.
The Senate outrage and resolutions followed a
motion moved on the issue by the Chairman,
Senate Committee on Interior, Senator Atiku
Bagudu (PDP Kebbi Central), and 10 other senators
on Tuesday last week.
Meanwhile, a Presidency source on Sunday told
one of our correspondents in Abuja that it was
already clear to the President that Moro should
take responsibility for the avoidable loss of lives
and embarrassment to the administration.
The source said it was based on this conviction
that the President warned all ministers and heads
of government departments and agencies at the
last Federal Executive Council meeting, that he
would not hesitate to order the arrest and
prosecution of any of them under whose watch
such an incident recurred.
Moro’s fate, the source said, would be decided on
the President’s return from his current three-
nation trip, which he started on Thursday.
However, The PUNCH again learnt on Sunday that
the March 15 tragedy could have been averted if
only the Ministry of Interior had not ignored a
proposal by its steering committee on recruitment.
Investigations in Abuja indicated that the
committee headed by the Director/Secretary of the
Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration, and Prison Service
Board, S.D Tapgun, had recommended that the
recruitment exercise be shifted to either the last
weekend in March or second week in April, 2014
for proper arrangement to be made for a
successful exercise but that the ministry ignored
the suggestion.
The recruitment committee proposed that N5m
should be budgeted for hiring of ambulances and
buying of water. It also suggested that the exercise
be staggered to accommodate the huge number of
applicants, but these were not heeded.
At its last meeting held on March 7, 2014, the
committee reportedly raised a memo to the
minister on its recommendations, but it was
apparently ignored.
Further checks also revealed that the 16
committee members were drawn from the CDFIPB,
NIS, Ministry of Interior, and Drexel Tech Nigeria
Limited.
The membership included Tapgun, CDFIPB; Deputy
Director (A&P), CDFIPB, JaeI Kpatuvvak; Asst.
Director (Admin), CDFIPB, Okhamera A. I.; Asst.
Director (A&P) CDFIPB, Bello Torankawa; Asst.
Director (IMM) – CDFIPB, Hamid AbduII-Iamid;
Asst. Director (D&GP) – CDFIPB, Aduku, M. M; and
CIS (APU), NIS Oyedeji, T.V.
Others are Abubakar A. A. – interior ministry;
Chukwu O. C., – Rep. Asst. Director (F&A) –
CDFIPB; I. M. Makama – LA – CDFIPB; Nasiru
Yusuf -ICT Unit – CDFIPB; Shehu Mohammed –
Deputy Director (D &GP) – CDFIPB; Mukah O. S. -
Chief Admin. Officer (FFS); Theodore Maiyaki –
Drexel Tech.; Wiiiiam Butau – Drexel Tech. and
Abioye Bankole – Drexei Tech.
Further investigations showed that Parradang had
earlier written to the CDFIPB and kicked against
the recruitment exercise.
In the letter dated September 9, 2013, a copy of
which was obtained by The PUNCH, the CG
protested the decision of the board to recruit
personnel into the NIS without formally informing
him about it.
Part of the letter read, “I wish to draw your
attention to an advertisement which has just been
brought to my notice, calling for application of
suitably qualified persons for appointment into
Categories’ ‘A’ (Superintendent Cadre) and
‘B’ (Inspectorate Cadre) of the Nigeria Immigration
in today’s Daily Trust – Monday, September 9,
2013 on page seven (7)
“I wish to further state that this advertisement for
employment took me by surprise and the Agency
which I head (i.e. the Nigeria Immigration Service).
I am aware that the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration
and Prisons Service Board Act CAP: 12, 2004
confers Powers of Appointment on the Board,
however the same Act equally delegates such
powers (i.e. recruitment) to the Services —
particularly recruitment into Category “B” , which
has been the case up till this moment.
“The said publication or advertisement for
appointment of persons into the Nigeria
Immigration Service without consultation or any
input whatsoever from us is to say the least,
surprising and embarrassing to me. I feel NIS
should be taken along in this issue regarding staff
recruitment into Category “B” in particular, which
is usually conducted and supervised by the
Service.”
The board in its reply dated October 29, 2013
apologised for not informing the CG about the
recruitment exercise and told him that the power
delegated to the service had not changed.
The letter signed by Tapgun, however, said the
recruitment would proceed and applications (for
junior personnel) that fell under the purview of the
NIS would be forwarded for action.
Our correspondent learnt that the contract for the
recruitment had been awarded to Drexel Tech by
the minister, before Parradang assumed office.
No fewer than 15 armed robbers invaded the Christ
Apostolic Church in Alagbado, Lagos State, stealing
about 40 phones and money estimated at N2m.
The robbers, who operated for about 20 minutes,
were said to have also attempted raping some of
the church members before they left the church
premises.
It was learnt that the men came around 2am
penultimate Friday while the over 450 congregation
was engrossed in a prayer session.
A member of the church, who craved anonymity,
said some of the members had observed a strange
man making phone calls while the vigil was on.
He said, “The vigil actually started around 12
midnight. Some of us observed a man who came in
around 1.30am. He was seated in the women’s
section. About four persons tried persuading him to
change seat, including the pastor, but he refused.
So they left him.
“I observed him going out several times to make
phone calls. At about 2am, I overheard him saying,
‘start coming, they are praying’. Few minutes later,
I heard a gunshot.”
The head usher of the church was said to have
been shot at close range, when he tried closing the
door against the robbers, who he originally thought
were arriving late for the programme.
The bullet was said to have shattered the glass at
the entrance, and landed on the pulpit.
When the gun men got in, the church members
were said to have been ordered to lie face down,
while they started ransacking them.
One of the church leaders said, “They positioned
themselves at the church’s major entrances. They
collected money, phones and recharge cards.
They started shouting, ‘where is your pastor?’
They took the church offering and wanted to rape
some of our women. In the 20 years of my being in
the ministry, I have never seen such effrontery
before.”
Our correspondent gathered that the robbers,
however, did not know that there were two other
exit doors in the church.
The pastor was said to have sneaked out through
the exit and dodged behind a window, where he
viewed everything going on.
It was learnt that the gang leader, who wore a
mask, suddenly became angry and started arguing
with a member of the gang over a phone that was
snatched from one of the church members.
The source said, “It must have been God working
at that point. During the argument, this young man
suddenly pulled off his mask and started fighting
the other robber. They had a heated argument over
a phone they had just snatched without knowing
that the pastor was looking at them.”
PUNCH Metro gathered that the pastor of the
church alerted the police who arrived at the scene
just after the robbers left.
An elder in the church told our correspondent that
the members of the church, however, held on to
the stranger in the church who appeared to have
been the robbers’ informant.
He said, “Apart from me, there were three other
people who saw him. A particular member of the
church even told us that he was the one who
grabbed her phone while the robbers were stealing
items. He wanted to follow the robbers when they
were escaping, but we held him till the police
arrived.”
He was handed over to the Ojokoro Police Division
for interrogation. He was said to have aided the
police in apprehending the other robbers.
Our correspondent gathered from residents of the
area that the same gang of robbers had been
terrorising the area for a long time.
A resident, who did not want his name mentioned
for security purpose said, “After they left CAC that
day, they robbed in about eight other streets –
Baruwa, Tebun Fagbemi, Sunday Fadipe, Idowu
Oya, Ayobola, Balogun, Alhaji SL and Taibat Banire
Estate.”
Investigations by PUNCH Metro revealed that the
gang leader, who led the church operation and
angrily pulled off his mask, was the son of a
traditional ruler.
Our correspondent gathered that the young man,
identified simply as Ade, had been arrested, but
there had been high-powered influences seeking
his release from police custody.
The pastor of the church, who identified him, was
said to be under pressure to withdraw his
incriminating statement from the police.
The residents said they were apprehensive as the
state command’s authorities had withdrawn the
matter from the police team originally handling it at
the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
When contacted, the Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said the matter
was being investigated at SARS.
Braide said, “The incident took place around 2am
and some people were arrested around 4am. The
matter is currently under investigation and the
suspects, including the son of the traditional ruler,
are in police custody.
“It will, however, be unreasonable for anyone to be
apprehensive and insinuate things against the the
command’s authorities in a case in which they
have no interest. Justice is what we stand for and
justice is what we are going to do in this matter.”
